Every brand. Every store. One head office.
Set menus, recipes, prices and rules once, and see sales, stock and GP from every store as it happens — while each brand, country and franchisee keeps the ordering channels, delivery partners and payment providers its market needs.
30+ years in restaurant technology · ~2,000 restaurants run on Aura · Aura NextGen live in 5 African countries
Published from head office
Menus, prices and adverts reach every store’s tills and screens.
Up to 50 stores a week
Converted remotely, once each store is ready.
Restaurant brands that trade on Aura
The problem
Multi-brand operators face compounding complexity
Every additional store or brand amplifies these challenges. The cost is not just financial — it is operational drag that limits how fast you can grow.
No real-time visibility
Head office relies on delayed, manually consolidated reports. By the time you see a problem, it has already cost you money.
With Aura
Sales, stock and GP for every store, live in one portal.
Scaling is slow and expensive
Adding a new store means weeks of setup, custom integrations, and unpredictable costs. Growth should not feel like starting from scratch every time.
With Aura
Clone a brand-standard setup and bring each store live remotely.
No standardised controls
Without brand-level enforcement, every store operates differently. Menu drift, unapproved discounts, and inconsistent stock practices erode your margins silently.
With Aura
Menus, prices, permissions and stock rules set once at head office.
How it works across a group
Head office sets the standard. Every market trades its own way.
One platform carries your brand standards down to every store and brings every store’s results back up — without forcing every country and franchisee to work the same way.
Head office
Set once, for every brand and store
- Menus & recipes
- Prices & promotions
- Adverts & product imagery
- Permissions & stock rules
South Africa
Local choices, same standards
- Uber Eats & Mr D
- AuraPay or your own card provider
- Own branded QR ordering
Zambia
Local choices, same standards
- ZRA Smart Invoice fiscal integration
- Local delivery partners
- Country pricing & tax
Each franchisee
Local choices, same standards
- Store-level price & menu variations
- Invoiced directly per store
- Store-level kitchen workflow
See it in action
One sale. Every screen.
Ring it up on the till and the customer sees it, the kitchen gets it — live, with nothing re-keyed.
What you’re watching
A real sale at Salt Cafe
A simple coffee-shop setup: one till, a customer display facing the customer, and a kitchen display. Every store in a group works the same way.
Till
The cashier rings up the order and takes payment.
Customer display
Each item’s photo and the running total, then the brand’s adverts between sales.
Kitchen display
The order builds as it is rung up, and is ready to start the moment it is paid.
Order points & screens
Every way to take an order. Every screen to hand it over.
Mix the order points that suit each store and add screens as you grow. They all run from one menu, and every order reaches the kitchen the same way.
Take the order
Till
Staff ring up orders at the counter or front desk, with an optional customer display facing the customer.
MobilePOS
Waiters and queue-busters take orders on a phone or tablet, send them to the kitchen, take cash or card payments with tips and print the bill — and keep going when the internet drops.
Self-service kiosk
Customers browse the menu, customise, choose sit down or take away, then pay by card at the kiosk or at the counter. The kiosk prints their order number.
QR & online ordering
Your own branded site for skip-the-queue, Table QR and QR Drop Zone ordering — commission-free.
Make it and hand it over
Kitchen display
Every order from every order point lands here as it is rung up, with an optional sound when an order arrives on an empty screen. The kitchen starts it and marks it done.
Customer display
Faces the customer at the till: each item’s photo, the running total and their change, then your adverts between sales.
Order number display
Shows which order numbers are preparing and which are ready to collect, with the current wait time. Ready numbers pulse, with optional sounds, delivery-app orders show their channel, and one screen can serve several brands.
Each till, MobilePOS device, kiosk or QR ordering flow uses one Order Entry Licence.
Your brand, on every screen
Load it once at head office. See it in every store.
Product photos and adverts are managed centrally and published with the menu, so customer displays and ordering screens in every store look exactly like your brand — and change the day you change them.
Almond croissant
Flat white
Breakfast bowl
Panini
Iced latte
Mango smoothie
Salt Cafe’s own product photography, as loaded into its Aura menu.
The platform
Purpose-built for multi-brand scale
Every feature exists because a real franchise operator needed it. 30 years of solving these problems means nothing is theoretical.
Multi-store & multi-brand reporting
See sales, GP, stock variance and staff performance across every brand and every store — live, not days later — and measure each store against brand benchmarks.
- Live dashboards per brand, per store or consolidated
- GP analysis that surfaces margin problems instantly
- Benchmark every store against brand standards
Governance & compliance
Enforce stock-take rules, food-cost and wastage targets and locked policies across the network. A store compliance dashboard flags drift before it costs you.
- Stock-take rules and food-cost / wastage targets
- Locked policies and store-level permissions
- Compliance dashboard across every branch
Advanced menu management
Multiple menus and store profiles for price and menu variations, with menu release scheduling across stores — head office controls, branches execute.
- Multiple menus and store profiles
- Price and menu variations per store
- Scheduled menu releases across the group
Brand-standard rollout
Clone a brand-standard configuration — including kitchen workflow templates — and bring each new store live remotely, with store-level variations where you need them.
- Brand-standard kitchen workflow templates
- Store-level variations where needed
- Remote installation and setup
Branded online ordering & delivery
Give every brand its own online ordering, and connect the delivery partners each market needs — Uber Eats, Mr D, Yumbi, Delivery Tribe, Uber Direct and local providers — all feeding one governed menu, kitchen and reporting layer.
- Branded online ordering under each brand
- Free Yumbi & Delivery Tribe integrations; provider-neutral beyond
- One governed menu and reporting layer across channels
Franchise administration
Automate royalty calculation and, where you want it, bill technology centrally so franchisees avoid a stack of separate monthly charges.
- Automated royalty calculation
- Optional central billing
- Clean group-level reconciliation
Your managers' secret weapon
The AuraMC companion app puts stock control, compliance, and reporting in every manager's hand — even without internet.
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Syncs when back online
Standardised stock takes
Every manager follows the same process. Stock counts sync to head office the moment they reconnect — no manual consolidation.
Works offline, syncs automatically
Walk-in fridges and basements with no signal? No problem. Counts save locally and sync when the phone reconnects.
AI-powered GRV capture
Managers photograph delivery receipts on arrival. AI extracts line items and matches them to purchase orders, so nobody types up invoices.
Proactive compliance alerts
Missed a weekly stock take? Variance outside tolerance? The app flags it before head office has to chase it.
Audit-ready from the floor
Every count, every photo, every sync is timestamped and attributed. Full traceability without extra admin.
Print anywhere via Bluetooth
Generate stock reports and print to any Bluetooth or network receipt printer — right from the walk-in, right on the floor.
Rollout
A rollout planned around your trading
Switching a group is the risky part, so we do the preparation before each store changes over — and agree the pace with your team.
- 1
Set up head office
Agree your project lead and pilot stores, then build the central menu, recipes, stock items and reporting with your team.
- 2
Assess every store
Check each store’s tills, printers, network and power, so you know what can stay, what needs attention and what needs replacing.
- 3
Pilot in company stores
Prove sales, kitchen printing, payments, cash-up, stock and head-office reporting against agreed acceptance criteria.
- 4
Convert in planned batches
Install remotely around each store’s trading hours — up to 50 stores a week once staff are trained and the store is ready.
- 5
Extend the in-store experience
Add kitchen displays and customer order number screens after the core rollout, or as each store is revamped.
Staff trained before go-live
Certified online courses at learn.aurapos.com, with bulk enrolment and completion reporting by store. We also train your head-office trainers.
Keep what already works
Suitable tills and kitchen printers can stay. Equipment you do need is quoted per store, to buy or rent, before anyone commits.
People to call, every day
Help desk open 6:30 am to 10 pm, 7 days a week, including public holidays — with remote access to get stores trading again quickly.
Group pricing
Simple per-store pricing
Every store in the group pays the same published monthly subscription, so head office and franchisees can plan costs with confidence.
| Per store, per month | With AuraPay | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Store subscriptionAura Restaurant, including recipe & stock control | R1 995 | R2 495 |
| Uber Eats integration, where enabled | R250 | R250 |
| Mr D integration, where enabled | R250 | R250 |
Prices exclude VAT. AuraPay pricing applies to stores that take card payments through AuraPay; Standard applies where a store keeps another payment provider. Hardware, payment processing and third-party fees are excluded.
Included in every store subscription
- 4 Order Entry Licences, shared between tills, MobilePOS, Self-Service Kiosks and QR ordering
- 2 Kitchen Displays with configurable workflows, and 1 Customer Order Status Display
- Recipe & stock control — food cost, variance and waste, with receipt scanning (100 scans a month)
- Table service, table maps and Table QR
- QR & mobile ordering in your brand’s logo and colours, commission-free
- 2 Manager Companion users for stock takes, receipt scanning and approvals
- Custom roles and permissions
- Online training for every staff member
- Help desk 6:30 am to 10 pm, every day
Head-office tools, rollout services and any further integrations are scoped with your group, so you see the full picture before you commit.
Get a group proposalRunning one to four stores? See packages for independents
Why trust us
Built on three decades of restaurant expertise
Aura NextGen is not a startup experiment. It is the evolution of 30 years of solving operational problems for restaurant groups — from single-store operators to multi-continent franchise brands.
30+
Years in business
Decades of restaurant technology expertise since 1994
~2,000
Restaurants use Aura
From independents to national franchise groups, now moving onto Aura NextGen
SLA-backed
Uptime you can hold us to
99% availability every month or you receive service credits — enterprise plans can arrange more
365
Days of support
Help desk open 6:30 am to 10 pm every day, including public holidays
Ready to unify your brands on one platform?
Tell us about your group and we’ll arrange a demo built around your brands, stores and markets — then map out a rollout plan with your team.
We start with a pilot in your company-owned stores, then convert the rest in planned batches — up to 50 stores a week once they are ready.
Prefer to talk? Call +27 31 940 7003